Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To Combat Robocalls

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753524482/phone-companies-ink-deal-with-all-50-states-and-d-c-to-combat-robocalls?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

A deal was announced Thursday between 12 phone companies and 51 attorneys general to renew efforts to crack down on robocalls.

In the plan, service providers will provide technology to combat a practice known as "spoofing" to aid state attorneys general in locating and prosecuting the fraudulent robocallers.

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August 22, 2019 at 06:42PM

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